[BOWDLER (Thomas)]:

Letters written in Holland in the Months of September October, 1787. To which is added A Collection of letters, and Other Papers relating to the Journey of the Princess of Orange, on the 28th of June, 1787.

London: Printed for the Benefit of A Charitable Institution at Bath, and sold by J. Robson and W. Clarke..., 1788. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 205 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], 192, [3], 4 - 100, 2 folding engraved maps, contemporary lightly speckled calf, red leather label; binding very slightly dried but a very good to near fine copy. This work by Thomas Bowlder (1754 - 1825) was one of his earliest publications, written to chronicle the Prussian army's campaign against the Dutch. Commenting on the work in 1788, The Monthly Review was a bit sniffy: "These Letters appear to have been hastily written , and without any great prospect of awakening attention....," concluding, however, on a slightly less grudging note: "he is nevertheless a sensible and intelligent man, as may be gathered from several observations in his book; and has, undoubtedly, the merit of having given us an authentic detail of facts, which may prove highly useful to the historian...."

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Book number: 8276

Catalogue: History

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BOWDLER (John):

Select Pieces in Verse and Prose. Fourth Edition.

London: Printed by Davidson..., and Sold by Cadell and Davies..., 1820. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 340; [iv], 389 [390 blank, 391 - 392 adverts], engraved portrait of Bowdler as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary diced calf (rubbed and dried); lacks labels. Bowdler (1746 - 1823) was the brother of Thomas Bowdler (1754 - 1825), the editor of The Family Shakespeare. John Bowdler's collected works contains a defence of his brother's editorial decisions, as well as a long review of Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind.

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Book number: 3233

BOWLES (W. L.):

The Grave of the Last Saxon; or, The Legend of the Curfew. A Poem.

London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; and Archibald Constable and Co. Edinbugh. 1822. FIRST EDITION. Tall 8vo, 219 x 123 mms., pp. xi [xii Errata], 111 [112 colophon], sturdily rebound in quarter maroon morocco, linen boards, with library stamp in blind on front cover, and, and bookplate of Nottingham Reference Library on front paste-down end-paper. A good copy, with an emendation in pencil on page 37. The Church of England clergyman and poet Willilam Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) published his first volume of verse in 1789, Fourteen Sonnets Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey, which attracted the favourable attention of Coleridge, then seventeen years old. One of his best known works, an edition of Pope in 1806, which Byron attacked rather severely, led to an acrimonious dispute to which Bowles alludes in the preface to the above poem. The Eclectic Review in 1823 observed, "We have that respect for Mr. Bowles as an old acquaintance, that would lead us to speak as favourably as we can of his present production; but the truth is, that he has attempted something above his reach. This, in a young writer, would bespeak a commendable ambition: in a veteran, it indicates a mistaken estimate of his powers."

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Book number: 9346

Catalogue: Poetry

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BOWLES (Rev. William Lisle)]:

Sonnets and Other Poems...Eighth Edition. To which is added, Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recovering Slowly from Sickness.

[Bath], Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Dvis..., and J. Mawman..., 1802. Small 8vo, 157 x 93 mms., pp. [v] vi - xi [xii blank], [5] 6 - 180, engraved frontispiece, 3 other engraved plates at pages 70, [87], and [97], contemporary quarter red roan, marbled boards, vellum tips on corner; some water-staining of text. Bowles (1762 - 1850) published a number of poems with the word "sonnet" in the title, the first being Fourteen Sonnets Written Chiefly on Picturesque Spots during a Journey, in 1789; it was his first book, and only one hundred copies were published. The poem "Hope" appears to have been added in the sixth edition of 1798. The Analytical Review noticed the book in March, 1k789: "The author of these Sonnets evidently endeavoured to imitate Mrs. Charlotte Smith's little elegant compositions; they are certainly very inferior, yet their simple unaffected style gives them some claim to praise."

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Book number: 9656

BOWMAN (Thomas):

The Principles of Christianity, As taught in Scriptures; Being Seven Discourses on Our Lost State in Adam. Our Recovery by Jesus Christ, And the Necessity of Regeneration and Sanctification by the Holy Ghost. To which is prefixed, A Letter to a Clergyman.

Norwich: Printed by John Crouse; And sold by him; also by W. Eaton, at Yarmouth..., 1764. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo (in 4s), pp. [ii], x, 76, stitched as issued, original wrappers; perimeters frayed, spine defective. Bowman is described on the title-page as "Vicar of Martham, Norfolk," but his theological sentiments are not strictly Anglican. In the "Letter to a Clergyman," he defends himself from what seems to be a charge of sympathy with Methodists: "I am so far from agreeing with the Methodists, (as you have rashly declared) that the peculiar Doctrines I detest and abhor; being fully sensible they are delusive and dangerous." The work was also published in London in the same year, but apparently a few weeks later. ESTC T66246 locates only two copies of this printing: the British Library and Cambridge University Library. It was reprinted in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1769, and in London in 1790.

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Book number: 5453

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: religion Christianity PROSE

BOYD (Henry):

Poems chiefly Dramatic and Lyric, By the Rev. H. Boyd, A. M. Translator of Dante's Infermo [sic], Containing the follow Dramatic Poems:The Helots, A Tragedy, The Temple of Vesta, The Rivals, The Royal Message, Prize Poems, &c. &c.

Dublin: Printed by Graisbury & Campbell..., 1793. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 211 x 124 mms. pp. [xxiv], viii, [5] 6 - 648, [1], 645 - 646 [647 blank, including list of subscribers, with a typed poems tipped in between the two front free end-papers, followed by a printed obituary notice, and that followed by a ms. note by his son and the autograph of the author, rebound in recent quarter buckram. The translator and Church of Ireland clergyman, Henry Boyd(1748/9–1832"was born in Dromore, co. Antrim, the son of Charles Boyd, a farmer. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1776), before becoming a priest. In 1785 he published a two-volume translation of Dante's Inferno in English verse, only the second of its kind, with a specimen of the Orlando Furioso of Ariosto. It was printed by subscription, and dedicated to the earl of Bristol, bishop of Derry. The dedication is dated from Killeigh, near Tullamore, which was presumably Boyd's parish at the time. In 1793 he published a volume of his own verse, Poems Chiefly Dramatic and Lyric." (ODNB). A review, probably by John Aikin, appeared in The Monthly Magazine for 1797: "A large volume of Poems, chiefly dramatic, has been published, in Ireland, by Mr. Boyd: he possesses a considerable command of elevated diction and harmonious versification, but has been unfortunate in the choice of his subjects, and spreads out his conceptions with tedious diffuseness."

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Book number: 9652

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry drama

BOYER (Abel), editor:

Letters of Wit, Politicks and Morality. Written Originally in Italian, by the famous Cardinal Bentivoglio; in Spanish by Signior Don Guevara; in Latin by St. Jerome, Cato Uticensts, Aurelian the Emperor, and Queen Zenobia; and in French by Father Rapin, &c. Also select letters of Gallantry out of the Greek, of Aristænetus; the Spanish of Don Quevedo; the Latin of Petronius; and the French of Count Bussy Rabutin, Madam Maintenon, Mr. Fontenelle, &c. Done into English, by the Honourable H- H- Esq; Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Savage. Mr. Boyer, &c. To which is added a large collection of original letters of love and friendship. Written, by several gentlemen and ladies, particuly, the Honourable Mr. Granville, Tho. Cheek, Esq; Capt. Ayloffe; Dr. G- Mr. B-y; Mr. O-n, Mr. B-r, Mr. G-, Mr. F-r, Mrs. C--l, under the name of Astra; Mrs. W-n under the name of Daphne, &c.

London, Printed for J. Hartley, next door to the King's-head Tavern in Holborn: W. Turner in Lincolns-Inn-Fields: and Tho. Hodgson over against Grays-Inn-Gate, in Holborn 1701. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 183 x 112 mms., pp. [xviii], 40, ,[2],41-437[i.e.427] 428 adverts], title-page very slightly scored, contemporary panelled calf; front joint slightly cracked but front hinge reinforced, top and base of spine chipped, but a good copy. The lexicographer and journalist, Abel Boyer (1667?–1729) was born in France, in Languedoc and was educated at the Protestant academy of Puylaurens (formerly Montauban); he made his way into England in 1689. In 1694, he published a very successful textbook, The compleat French master for Ladies and Gentlemen: being a new method, to learn with ease and delight the French Tongue, which made his fortune and was reprinted for the next hundred years. The letters of Bentivoglio, here translated by Savage and Boyer himself, had long been held up as classical models in writing, but the last collection "Original Letters of Love and Freindship" from a variety of male and female sources, is of particular interest in the context of the incipient English epistolary novel.

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Book number: 9903

Catalogue: Anthology

Keywords: anthology wit literature

BOYER (Jean Baptiste de), Marquis d'Argens:

New Memoirs establishing A True Knowledge of Mankind, by discovering the Affections of the Heart, and the Operations of the Understanding, In the various Scenes of Life: Being A Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Friendship and Happiness. An Essays on other Important Subjects. Interspersed with Letters from the Baron de Spon, the Emperor's Minister at Berlin.... And Two Novels, Spanish and French, shewing the Tragical Effects of Jealousy; the dissembling Arts of Coquetry; and the unhappy State of the Comedian. With Thoughts on the Art of Beautifying the Face, By Mademoiselle Cochois, The Favour both of the Court, and the Theatre, of Berlin.

London: Printed for D. Browne...and A. Millar..., 1747. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 12mo. pp. vii [viii - xxiv Contents], 261 [262 adverts]; [xii], 274, one engraved plate in volume 1, hideously rebound in totally unsuitable and undescribable plastic of some sort (I don't want to know what it is); title-pages and last page of text soiled. A translation of Nouveaux memoirs, pour servir a l'histoire de l'esprit et du cœur which Boyer (1703 - 1771) published in 1746. ESTC 113949 locates only the BL copy in these islands, but 10 copies in North American libraries: CaOTU, CtY-BR, CSmH, CU-A, DLC, ICU, MH, PPL, and SSL.

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Book number: 4103

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Keywords: anthology psychology prose

BOYLE (Charles):

Dr Bentley's Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, and the Fables of AEsop, Examin'd. The Fourth Edition With some Additions, occasioned by a Book entituled A View of the Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, &c.

London: London, Printed for M. coooper..., 1745. 8vo, 197 x 119, pp. [viii], 266 [ 267 - 270 Index], contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; joints slightly cracked, some general wear to binding, but a good to very good copy. Sir William Temple's incautious observations on the authentic antiquity of the epistles of Phalaris in an essay on "Ancient and Modern Learning" in part two of his Miscellanea (1690) called forth William Wotton's Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning (1694), in which Temple's tentative conjecture was severely criticized. In 1695, Charles Boyle, fourth Earl of Orrery, began preparation for an edition of the epistles in which Temple's view as to their antiquity would be asserted, but he included injudicious comments about the courtesy and integrity of the scholar Richard Bentley. In his work, Wotton defended Bentley vigorously, and Boyle, with the assistance of various witlings at Christ Church College, Oxford, replied with his book in 1698. The controversy eventually prompted Swift to produce his Battle of the Books. Wing O471.

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Book number: 9282

Catalogue: Textual criticism

Keywords: textual criticism scholarship prose

BOYS (John):

A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent; With Observations on the Means of it Improvement. Drawn up for The Consideration of the Board of Agriculture, and Internal Improvement, From the original Report transmitted to the Board; With additional remarks of several respectable country gentlemen and farmers.

London: Printed for G. Nicol...and sold by Messrs Robinson..., J. Sewell..., Cadell and Davies...., William Creech, Edinburgh; and John Archer, Dublin, 1796. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi Preface], 206 [207 Errata, 208 blank], including half-title, folding engraved coloured map before title-page, folding chart between pp. 126 and 127, 2 full-page engraved plates, original wrappers, uncut; ex-library, with library stamp in blind on front free end-paper, half-title, and title-page, library shelf marks in pencil and ink on verso of title-page, with ink slightly showing through to recto, spine reinforced, covers a little soiled. Boys (1749 - 1824) was a farmer in Kent and one of the commissioners for sewers for east Kent. He wrote this book at the request of the board of agriculture. The first edition of this book was published in Brentford in 1794. Goldsmiths 16572.

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Book number: 4648

Catalogue: Agriculture

Keywords: agriculture topography prose

[BRACCIOLINI (Poggio)]:

Facetiae Facetiarum Hoc est, Joco-Seriorum Fasciulus novus Exhibens variorum autorum scripta, non tàm lectu jucunda & jocosa amoena & amanda, quàm lectu verè digna & utilia, multisve moralibus ad mores seculi nostri accommodata, illustrata, & adornata.

Pathopoli [? Leyden], Apud Gilastinum Severum 1657. 12mo, 127 x 67 mms., pp. [3] - 370 [371 "Ad Lectorem," 372, additional engraved title-page (as pages 1 - 2) 18th century calf, later reback, with title in gilt on spine. A very good copy Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) published this work in 1470, and it is credited with being the first book of jokes to be published. The late Dr. Barbara Bowen described it as "the most famous jokebook of the Renaissance" (One Hundred Renaissance Jokes: An Anthology [1988]), and, not surprisingly, many of the jokes are scatological or carminative. Actually, some of the jokes are not bad, and Dr. Bowen has obligingly translate the Latin, for example one about an absent-minded preacher: "Praedicabat Tibure frater parum consideratus ad populu, aggrauans multis uerbis ac destatns adulterium, dixitque inter caetera, adeo graue peccatkum, ut mallet decem uirgines cognoscere quam unicam mulierum nuptam. Hoc & multi que aderant elegissent." In other words: "A rather thoughtles friar was preaching to the people at Tivoli, and execrating adultery at great length. Among other things, he said adultery was such a dreadful sin that he would rather take ten virgins than one married woman. Many of those present would have shared his preference."

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Book number: 9698

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BRADBERRY (David):

Tetelestai: The Final Close. A Poem. In Six Parts.

Manchester, Printed for the Author, by G. Nicholson & co...., 1794. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 203 x 127 mms., pp. [11] 12 - 102, including title-page and dedication leaf printed twice, disbound; portion cut from top margin of first title-page to remove name. An Independent minister, David Bradberry (1735–1803) spent most of his career in Ramsgate and Manchester; he wrote very little, of which this poem is the best-known work. It was noticed briefly in volume 6 of The British Critic: A New Review: "The first thing which will strike the reader of this extraordinary performance, will be its whimsical dedication, which, but for its length, we would transcribe. It is formally address to the sovereign of the universe. Nor will anyone be less surprised with the singular structure of the verse...." The verse reminds one of Christopher Smart's poems.

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Book number: 9018

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: poetry provincial imprint literature

BRADBURY (William ) and SANDERS (C. W.).

The School Singer, or Young Choir's Companion: a choice collection of music, original and selected, for juvenile singing schools, Sabbath schools, public schools, academies, select classes, etc., including some of the most popular German melodies, with English words adapted, or poetry translated from the German expressly for this work : also, a complete course of instruction in the elements of vocal music, founded on the Germany system of Kübler. Fifth Edition.

New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co., n. d. [c. 1846]. Oblong 8vo, pp. 204, printed boards (very soiled); text browned and somewhat soiled; spine worn.

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BRADLEY (Richard):

New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical. In Three Parts.... To which is added, That scarce and valuable Tract, intitled, Herefordshire- Orchards. The Fifth Edition, with an Appendix, treating several Matters omitted in the former impressions. Illustrated with Copper Plates.

London: Printed for W. Mears, and Sold by J. Knapton, G. Strahan, R. Gosling, J.Osborn and T. Longman, J. Hooke, T. Batley, G. Rivington, and D. Browne. M. DCC. XXVI. 1726. 8vo, 190 x 105 mms., pp. [xvi], [3] 4 - 296, 305 - 608 [609 - 631 Index, 632 adverts], title-page in red and black, one full paged engraved plate at page 11, one folding engrave plate at page [61], and a fragment of folding plate at page [488], with various ownership inscriptions, notably that of John Woodward 1665/1668 - 1728) on the top margin of the title-page (see below), bound in contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, hinges strengthened with cloth, no leaves before title-page, which it itself soiled and slightly frayed,some worming affecting text from page 160 to 200, last ten leaves water-stained at upper corner corners and edges worn. The author of the book, Richard Bradley (1688?-1732), and John Woodward (1665/1668-1728), the scientist and physician, both made enormous contributions to the University of Cambridge in the early eighteenth century, and were prominent contemporaries in the field of natural philosophy. In 1692, "Woodward was appointed Gresham Professor of Physic and in 1693 elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1695 he was made an M.D. by Archbishop Tenison and by Cambridge University. In 1702 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians" (Wikipedia). Woodward ultimately became a foundational figure at the University of Cambridge. He provided the thousands of specimens that became the Woodwardian Museum, and he created and endowed the professorial chair termed the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge in 1728. His library was legendary, but ESTC shows at most two books noted as having been owned by a John Woodward (ESTC S101762 and ESTC S116209), and it is unclear whether either was owned by the John Woodward who was the famous scientist and physician. Woodward was not only eminent, however. He was also notorious. He was a bad boy of the Royal Society. He was kicked off the council in 1710 for insulting Hans Sloane. He has also "been credited as a founder of plant physiology and the discovery of 'transpiration' " (Oxford DNB). Without question, he was one of the most important early collectors of fossils in Britain: the Oxford DNB notes that Woodward was a "real pioneer in the world of museology. … The fossils were left at his death, in their original cabinets, to Cambridge University, along with an endowed professorship, the first in Britain, both of which bequests are described in his will." In her Concise History of the University of Cambridge (1996), Elisabeth Leedham-Green speaks of Woodward and Bradley in the same breath: "The first professor of botany, Richard Bradley, was appointed in 1726, and endeavoured strenuously, as he was bound, to raise funds for a physic garden. His reputation was mishandled by John and Thomas Martyn who succeeded him, but his published course of lectures and his other works have since been found worthy of respect. John Woodward, MD, who was in 1728 to found the chair in geology and endow it with his collections, demonstrated in his Essay towards a natural history of the earth that he had recognised the existence of different strata in the earth's crust, although he failed to make any sense out of them" (p. 94). This is ESTC N50685 and extremely rare, with the ESTC cataloguers finding only three copies: Oxford (All Souls College, not Bodleian) in the United Kingdom; and Harvard and Huntington in the United States, though the copy at Huntington is so imperfect that it consists of the "appendix only".

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Keywords: gardening plants prose

BRADY (Robert):

An Historical Treatise of Cities and Burgh or Boroughs. Shewing Their Original, and whence, and from whom, they received their Liberties, Privileges, and Immunities; what they were, and what made and constituted a Free Burgh and Free Burgesses. As also shewing When they first sent their Representatives to Parliament. With A concurrent Discourse of most Matters and Things incident or relating thereto. A New Edition, Corrected.

London: Printed for, and sold by Joseph White..., 1777. 8vo, pp. [ii], iv, 170 [misprinted 107], 55 [56 blank, 57 - 64 Index], 19th century half plum calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; title-page slightly stained, but a good copy. Brady (?1627 - 1700) published this in 1690, but did not live to see the second edition in 1704. There was another edition in 1711 and still another "second edition" in 1722. This was the last edition to be published in the eighteenth century. Adam Smith had a copy of this work (at present unlocated) in his library, and he cited the work in The Wealth of Nations (III, iii, 2).

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Book number: 4384

Catalogue: Sociology

Keywords: sociology history prose